chemn.
/kɛm/, U.S. /kɛm/ colloquial.
= chemistry n. 3. Frequently attributive.Esp. as a subject of study in schools and colleges.
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1910 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 3 Apr. 12/3 Remember the time they were going to put the new ventilator in the chem lab in the basement?
1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain vii. 373 That was the end of school, of stinking chem labs, of physics classes where you experimented with the laws of the pendulum.
1965 G. Jones Island of Apples ii. i. 68 He would never go home after school without locking up all the chem cupboards three or four times.
1997 E. Seymour & N. M. Hewitt Talking about Leaving iii. 151 The first chem class was totally dead. It wasn't like that when I went to psychology.
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